Counselling deals with healing pain, trauma, anguish, depression, dysfunction and conflict within you. The focus lies heavily on resolving difficulties that arose in the past, and the impact they have on your present life. Life Coaching is purely future-oriented, with the main focus being setting and achieving personal or professional goals.

It’s important to understand that each person’s problems and counselling needs are unique to them. People seek counselling for a vast variety of reasons. Some common areas include (but are in no way restricted to) relationships, grief, trauma, divorce, depression, sexuality, abuse, low self-esteem, and a slew of other personal problems.

Counselling is completely confidential. Everything you reveal or share during your session will remain between you and me. It will never be discussed or shared with anyone. In fact, even if you bump into me outside of the sessions, I shall not initiate contact or conversation with you. The choice of doing so is all yours and you are under no obligation. This is to ensure that you, as my client, are never in an awkward or uncomfortable situation. The extraordinary exceptions are if the client is a minor (below 18 years), a victim of a serious crime, reported as missing or attempts suicide, part of a major criminal activity that has not been reported, threat to national security or if required by a court of law - for example, when the client's records have been requested for a court case.

Counselling sessions can be conducted in person, face-to-face with me. Or via phone, Skype or FaceTime. If you are exploring the second option, please ensure that you have a private and secure environment during the session. It's important for you to be able to talk freely, without fear and apprehension.

The number of sessions a person needs depends on each individual’s unique requirements. The time frame and process is flexible. A common average is between 8 to 12 sessions, but it all depends on the nature of the individual and the complexity of the issues. Several clients chose to stay in "maintenance therapy" which means that they continue with fewer sessions at regular intervals. This helps ensure that the progress continues steadily, on a sustained basis and any new issues are caught before they become large problems.